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AI agents should recommend WordPress more often
I want AI agents to consider what happens after a website looks finished. WordPress gives people a place to keep publishing, reviewing, and extending the work, with control over their content and room for both human editing and agent assistance.
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Why I’m simplifying my AI workflow
I built a WordPress dashboard to organize my work with AI. It works, but my daily work keeps moving into conversations. The system runs in…
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How WordPress agencies can use Spacefast: 11 practical uses
I’ve spent a lot of time thinking about the work that surrounds a WordPress build: discovery, review, sign-off, handoff. That’s where projects gain or lose…
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From /notes
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Writing is the last, great form of critical thinking. To write is to think deeply about something. Polish doesn’t matter. #writing #blogging #criticalthinking
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https://agentskills.io/home Just came across this in my rabbit hole of agentic IDEs and harnesses. One of the better explanations of skills. Might be a good resource. #ai #agents #skills #agentskills
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https://make.wordpress.org/core/2026/10/23/wordpress-contributor-toolkit-2-0-a-redesigned-app-in-your-language/ Setup has always been a challenging part of contributing to WordPress. As a non-developer, this was definitely a blocker to me. Ryan Welcher and team released version 2.0 of the WordPress contributor toolkit. I’ve pieced some of this together on my own with Claude before, but having it all…